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Socktober Fest - Week 2

Tips and Tricks for sock knitting
- Sock knitting comes with practice. Sometimes it's a good idea to knit part of your pattern in a larger weighted yarn to get the kinks out first and develop muscle memory.
- Use longer needles, many sock needles come in 6-inch lengths, using 8-inch needles will help you keep your work on your needles when knitting with multiple needles.
- You can also use Point Protectors if you are dropping stitches.
- Pull your stitches tight at the end of each needle.
- Keep a small crochet hook close by in case you do drop a stitch or need to fix a stitch. It's easy to be discouraged if you need to start over again and again.
- If you do drop a stitch pinch the stitch with your fingers right away so it doesn't slip down any further.
What we've done so far
- Start with a long tail cast on 48(52,56)
- Then working in knit 1, purl 1 we stitched 16(17,18) on the first needle in 16(18,20) on the second needle and lastly 16(17,18) on our third needle.
- We then joined our work by starting our next row, NOT turning our work.
Fantastic tips Gwen! Thank you!
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